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[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen]

2008/5/7 Jos van den Oever <jvdoever at gmail.com>:

> > Uhm, that was not the intention :-) The hit_ids argument is an arbitrary
> > array of hit ids, fx, [1, 7, 28]. It is meant to make it convenient to
> react
> > to HitsModified or the user selecting a collection of elements in a ui.
> >
> > I am open for making it sequential access though (even though this would
> be
> > an API break). This would possibly result in a lot of dbus traffic if I
> move
> > a dir with the Linux kernel source and the server emits HitsModified for
> all
> > the files (and my app would need to call GetHitData on all affected hits
> -
> > which are unlikely to have sequential ids).
>
> It was my impression that all hits are numbered starting from 0. So if
> HitsAdded() is emitted once with value 3, I can access data for hits
> 0, 1 and 2. Perhaps this should be clarified in the spec.
>
> Of course when calling GetHitdata, you can pass e.g. (2,0,1).
>

Ah, good. Then you are right. I am just trying to confuse you ;-)

Cheers,
Mikkel
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